tmpspa@eua4.ericsson.se (Stefan Parmark) (07/01/88)
I am considering bying a C compiler for my Amiga 1000. To my knowledge there are Lattice C 4.0 and Aztec C 3.6 to choose among. What I know about these compilers is this: Lattice is very good during compilation, because it gives lots of useful warnings that points out possible errors (how many of you haven't exchanged '=' with '==' some time?) and it uses prototypes. There has already come two patches to fix bugs in the compiler. (Shame on you, Lattice! Don't you test your products before you try to sell them?) Aztec is not very good as giving warnings. It is possible to compress headers more than Lattice allows. It compiles fast and produces small code. There is a cheap source code debugger to buy, that is really good. It allows assembler code to be mixed directly with C programs. It doesn't have as many library functions to use. I have, starting about six monts ago, heard rumours about Turbo C coming to the Amiga too? Is this true, is it available and, in that case, where can I get it? Stefan Parmark, Ellemtel, Sweden
vkr@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Vidhyanath K. Rao) (07/05/88)
data: For example, Manx Chk_Abort() stomps on the SIGBREAKF_CTRL_C flag (even if Enable_Abort = 0 :-(). Is there a list of wuch known quirks available to us mere mortals (aka non-developers)?